Automotive & Auto Components

Built for the pace and

Precision Of Automotive Sourcing.

Automotive manufacturers and their supplier tiers operate under constant cost pressure, high part volumes, and tight technical specifications

Cost down targets cascade from the OEM down every tier, annual price negotiations set the year’s margin, and every component has a drawing that determines what it should cost. The teams that can connect the drawing to the price win those negotiations, but most can’t do it at the speed and scale automotive demands.

Built for the complexity of

Project Based Sourcing

Automotive manufacturers and their supplier tiers operate under constant cost pressure, high part volumes, and tight technical specifications

Challenges in Automotive Sourcing

Cost-down targets arrive faster than savings can be found.

Every tier absorbs pressure from above, and without knowing what parts should cost, buyers can only push suppliers on relationship and volume.

Should-cost can't keep pace with SKU volume.

Zero-based costing works, but it takes days per part, so it covers a fraction of thousands of active part numbers. The rest are negotiated on last price.

Raw material pass-through requests can't be verified.

Steel and copper movements trigger price-increase letters, with no independent check on how much of the ask is real material impact and how much is padding.

Quotes arrive incomparably.

Tooling amortisation, RM basis, freight, and payment terms differ across every supplier. Manual normalisation is slow and error-prone at volume.

Deviations slip through at scale.

Substitute materials and tolerance relaxations missed under time pressure surface at incoming inspection or in the field, costing far more than the sourcing saving.

How Stozia Helps

Outcomes

01 3–5% savings in direct materials

through should-cost anchored negotiation and quote normalisation.

02 50%+ faster RFQ cycles

with agents handling preparation, follow-up, and comparison.

03 Cost coverage at full scale

an independent anchor on every part, not a fraction of the portfolio.

04 Audit-ready across plants

every sourcing decision tracked, comparable, and searchable.

Watch it work on your RFQ

We run it on your sourcing, with your parts against your suppliers.